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In his eye-opening, astute new book, The Persecution of Sarah Palin, Matthew Continetti argues that the "story of Sarah Palin is the story of American political journalism's intellectual bankruptcy," and while Continetti's narrative does include plenty of lesser-known biographical detail it also contextualizes Palin into a fascinating case study of the politics of personal destruction as employed by the left-leaning cultural and media elites who constantly tsk-tsk…the politics of personal destruction. "It's not new for a prominent political figure to be hated," Continetti tells TAS. "But it is novel when a political figure becomes so hated so quickly, and for that hatred to be based on so little information." Appalled by this persistent knowledge gap, the Weekly Standard editor undertook the challenge of setting the record straight and answering, to his mind, "the most outrageous insults, myths, and exaggerations directed at her and her family."

Continetti was kind enough to chat recently with TAS about The Persecution of Sarah Palin -- sure to soon be seen as the essential companion to Palin's own upcoming memoir Going Rogue.

One of the most common attacks against those who failed to see Barack Obama as a shining demigod upon a hill was to psychologize an unflattering "fear of the other" onto them, but as you catalogue in detail there was quite a bit of hysteria about this "stranger from the strangest part of America" coming from those same ranks, no? How much projection was going on?

MC: Plenty. But the larger phenomenon is that there are two political Others -- the liberal and the conservative. Each demonizes the other. Each sifts through the evidence, picking out that which confirms their worst fears and ignoring the rest. And yet it was odd, to say the least, that liberals would react in such a hysterical manner to a politician whose reputation rested on bipartisan ethics reform, taking on the oil companies, and overthrowing a state GOP establishment. But, because no one knew anything about Palin, the media shoehorned her into their pre-packaged, one-size-fits-all narrative about socially conservative ignoramuses bent on taking America back to the Stone Age.

Sarah Palin seems to currently be in a horserace with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh for Go-To Bogeyman of the Left. On election night 2009, for example, Chris Matthews unequivocally labeled her a "theocrat," and a denier of "basic American notions of pluralism." Do you think the left's ability to take a bipartisan, popular reformer and turn her into a crank in much of the citizenry's minds will embolden them to take a similar guns-blazing-with-half-truths-and-conspiracy-theories approach in all future campaigns?

MC: I'll have to include that Matthews quote in the paperback edition! But, to answer your question, I think the ferocity of the Palin episode was unique, because her nomination to the vice presidency came as an absolute shock to the media. Most of them had never heard of her, and yet there she was, standing next to John McCain as the balloons fell from the rafters of the XCEL Energy Center. What nerve! And so the environment was ripe for all sorts of rumors and conspiracy theories to fester about this mystery woman from the North.

No one in the press, as you point out, "asked Joe Biden whether he literally believed in the transubstantiation or the Virgin Birth" or complained about explicitly religious ads run on behalf of Barack Obama's campaign, but they were nevertheless more than happy to "twist and contort" Palin until she "fit the stereotype of the boorish, Luddite religious conservative." One gets the impression she could join the Secular Coalition of America and still be denounced as a fundamentalist. Why is it that what was good for the "progressive" goose wound up getting the conservative gander shellacked as a "Christianist"?

MC: Palin's tradition of Christianity was absolutely central to the liberal critique. Simply put, the American left blanches at public expressions of religiosity and believes that political figures should mention their faith only in service of liberal policy aims. Thus it did not matter that millions of people share Palin's Christian faith. Nor did it matter that, in both her gubernatorial administration and on the campaign trail, Palin mentioned her religion rarely and neither governed nor campaigned as a strident social conservative. The stereotype was so powerful that liberals saw zealotry where none existed.

It is nigh impossible to deny that a female vice-presidential nominee on the Democratic ticket would have driven self-proclaimed feminists to insist a powerful independent woman -- who, sure, disagreed with them on policy, but, still… -- should be back at the homestead rearing children and cooking meals rather than in politics. What is it about what you dub as "frontier feminism" that took a potential symbol of female empowerment and achievement and turned her into an enemy of "right-thinking" women?

MC: Palin does not subscribe to the full menu of what the political consultant and author Jeffrey Bell has called "adversarial feminism." But Palin is a feminist. She supports Title IX, frequently mentions the "glass ceiling" separating women from men, attacked Barack Obama for paying his female Senate staff members less than male staff, and outlined a pro-woman foreign policy that Hillary Clinton would be comfortable supporting. But she is also pro-life and does not believe that women necessarily must trade off a happy home life for professional success. And so the feminist establishment began a crusade to expel her from the city of ladies. They succeeded in making her politically polarizing. But, I think, they also irrevocably tarnished their ability to speak on behalf of women as a whole.

"The resemblances between McCain's and Palin's political styles," you write, "are uncanny" -- "Like McCain, Palin becomes self-righteous when she confronts individuals who offend her idealistic sensibilities"; "Like McCain, Palin seemed to revel in holding members of her own party to account"; "Like John McCain, she was the triumphant underdog." Yet not all of these traits have endeared McCain to the conservatives whom Sarah Palin is wildly popular with.

MC: The difference is in the context. What conservatives know about McCain is the many times that he has fought them. When Palin appeared, conservatives, like liberals, knew only that she was pro-life. Then conservatives witnessed the way in which liberals treated her. They rallied to her side. It's interesting to note that, in Alaska, conservatives and Republicans have a much more nuanced -- and sometimes more skeptical -- view of Palin. They did not like when she cut deals with Democrats. They did not like when she criticized the state GOP establishment. So, when you examine her more closely, you see that the parallels between Palin and McCain remain quite striking.

Despite the energy Palin brought to the McCain ticket late in the game, you nevertheless say she was a "loyal soldier in an army that did not appreciate her true value," and that the McCain campaign "made her famous but it also shoehorned her into a bad media strategy and a partisan straitjacket." How was Palin devalued? How could her "true value" unbound have potentially made a difference in the election?

MC: It remains the case that the only time McCain polled ahead of Barack Obama was during the two weeks between the GOP convention and the collapse of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008. I believe that Palin was central to this upsurge in support for the Republican ticket. Could things have turned out differently on Election Day? Probably not. In many ways the 2008 GOP ticket faced an impossible task. It sought to replace an unpopular incumbent of the same party during a time of war and recession. That's a bad bet. Nonetheless, it remains true that the McCain team did not know what they had in Palin. Since they worried about her abilities, they limited her exposure to high-pressure interviews with network television anchors not known for sympathy to conservatives. Had Palin been allowed to speak out more, and to various news outlets, she no doubt would have made some rookie mistakes -- but those mistakes would have disappeared against a larger backdrop of accessibility, common sense, and charm.

"The landscape of Alaska was littered with the carcasses of Republican bulls she had emasculated," one of your sources tells you. The always-incisive Michael Goldfarb, your current colleague and former McCain campaign staffer, says, "She has enemies everywhere in Alaska. And they're all Republicans. The upside had been that she'd worked with Democrats. As soon as she's picked, though, there's no Democrat who'll say anything nice about her." You add, "The Alaskan Palin-haters met willing accomplices in the global media" -- and further note that this is the same media that couldn't find anyone in Alaska with a nice thing to say about a governor with upwards of 80 percent job approval.

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Letter to the Editor

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Sarah Palin, Feminism, Media Bias

Appleby| 11.11.09 @ 6:55AM

My view is that the male establishment hated Mrs. Palin because she did not care what they thought of her; and the female establishment hated her because she had succeeded on her own, with the support but not on the coat tails of her husband, father or paramour as so many of the liberal women in media and politics do. I continue to wonder how many of the women who jeered and mocked Mrs. Palin for bearing a Downs Syndrome baby and unabashedly showing him in public, and for her daughters pregnancy, had daughters with meth addictions and multiple abortions, handled by Mommys lawyer or shoving them into rehab and out of sight?

And I wonder how many of these women are really angry that Mrs. Palin does not refer to herself as Ms.?

Sandra in Severn| 11.11.09 @ 11:53AM

Exactly, 100% in the center ring of the target!
Gov. Palin is the nail that WILL NOT BE HAMMERED DOWN. Look at all the candidates in the last decade and whom is vilified and whom is not.

IMKessel| 11.11.09 @ 4:52PM

Dead on, Mr. Appleby!

Mr. Macomber may have baked this cake, but you put the icing on it.

HeatherRadish| 11.12.09 @ 7:40AM

"with the support but not on the coat tails of her husband, father or paramour as so many of the liberal women in media and politics do."

This.

Joan | 11.13.09 @ 4:44AM

You are obviously a male.

Joan| 11.13.09 @ 4:46AM

And a rather stupid one at that.

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Melvin| 11.11.09 @ 8:04AM

Lets face it. The feminists have emasculated the Republican hierarchy to the point of making them
eunuchs by Wiki and my definition is a castrated elected official, in particular one castrated early enough to have major political consequences; the term usually refers to those in Republican leadership roles castrated in order to perform a specific a political function.
Hence, this may be why many in the Republican Country Club feel intimidated by her because Sarah forces them to be men, unlike liberal women with political power who manipulate through sexual coercion and deceit by making Republican political males think that they are men. I.E. all the sexual scandals that have engulfed Republican political figures as of late.

Deborah D| 11.11.09 @ 8:20AM

I think the revulsion by some of Sarah Palin is just a microcosm of the elites' revulsion of the average American. It's similar to the elites' revulsion toward George W. Both too dumb, too uncultured and too Christian to be in positions of power. Never mind that GW graduated from both Yale and Harvard...he had "Texas hick" written all over him. Sarah? Well, she's a backwoods, moose hunting, Christian woman (who also is very good looking).

Common sense isn't considered as good as "book learning." We see what book learning has done to our country since Jan. 2009. I'll take common sense any day of the week.

Anthony| 11.11.09 @ 10:26AM

You make many excellent points. Let me just add, if I might, that the elitism coming out of the political class in Washington isn't so much a matter of educational pedigree ( the Ivy's, although many are) rather, I believe the elitism comes from a belief in big government statism with them at the helm.
Other than Obama, the lower eschelon of elected Democrats are mostly ordinary educated folks with huge political ambitions. The club has only one real criteria for admission, belief in a political oligarchy. That is what Congress has devolved into, the people be damned. That is the real reason why Gov. Palin is hated by them, she will destroy their ruling cabal. PALIN 2012!!!

alyeska| 11.11.09 @ 8:27AM

george w bush was simply inarticulate, ergo easy to mock.

sarah palin -- well even fox news has taken to fact-checking her outrageous claims (and finding them false) -- people are walking out of her "speeches" in droves -- and she was a terrible mother, not to mention ignorant, a quiter, vindictive, corrupt, and frankly, uninteresting.

please, run more of these republican "stars" in 2010.

palin/beck!!

Joe Daniels| 11.11.09 @ 9:06AM

Alyeska, why are you filled with so much hatred?

JimE| 11.11.09 @ 7:58PM

Because he is deathly afraid of having to take responsibilty for his own welfare and actions, much better and safer to let others do it for him.
No need to disrupt his world, sitting in his mother's basement, staring at the screen, drinking warm tang and eating stale egg-salad sandwiches and smoking herbal cigarrettes in order to do his part.

Alan Brooks| 11.11.09 @ 9:35AM

"vindictive, corrupt, and frankly, uninteresting."

Then she has what it takes to be a real politician in the distant future, after she hones the qualities you mentioned.

A. Brooks| 11.11.09 @ 2:27PM

Politicians aren't angels in Heaven.

Tough toenails, bub.

alyeska| 11.12.09 @ 6:32AM

you've got that right :)

Oldefarte| 11.11.09 @ 10:50AM

It's amazing that someone who critisizes another for being 'ignorant' is unaware of the proper grammatical useage of the English language when it come to CAPITALIZATION of words that begin a SENTENCE!

alyeska| 11.12.09 @ 6:33AM

welcome to the 21st century!

Terry| 11.12.09 @ 10:14AM

Yes, alyeska, institutionalized loss is what we can see. The socialists in education don't educate they inculcate. You've learned your lessons well, it seems.

alyeska| 11.13.09 @ 4:16AM

what you should be asking is "is our children learning." mr potatoe head :)

Bydand76| 11.11.09 @ 1:11PM

So what are these outrageous claims that you are talking about and what are the facts that Fox News is checking into?

I would like to see proof of your claims here because so far you have been wrong everytime you post on here Alyeska.

Which is not suprising considering the source, However I digress.

Put your money where your mouth is and show some proof. What claims has Sarah Palin made that are false? What speech did she give where people walked out in supposed droves? A terrible mother? Seriously?

Otherwise. shut the F up and keep your idiotic ramblings to yourself please!

Hey BTW have you seen the new Gallup poll?

alyeska| 11.12.09 @ 6:36AM

fox's bret bair today pointed out that sarah palin's claim that the administration was responsible for putting "in god we trust" on the side of the 1$ coin, when in fact, that happened under bush -- don't believe me, go to fox news and check it out.

as far as obama's poll numbers go, as of 0100 today his approval rating was at 51% per the gallup poll.

so?

furious| 11.12.09 @ 9:31AM

Pres. Obama thinks there are "57 states".

VP Biden thinks FDR appeared on television in 1929.

You mis-spelled Brett "Baer".

Heh...furious

alyeska| 11.13.09 @ 1:02PM

i don't watch fox enough to care how you spell his name. i can spell jon stewart and steven colbert though :)

RWT| 11.13.09 @ 3:10PM

Obamao called an inhalator a breathalyzer, too. Bigger point: I have never seen even the most absolute moron of a classmate of mine, growing up here in America, much less an adult, mistakenly think that there are 57 states in the Union. What an idiot! He has to have had that number implanted into his brain from somewhere. I don't care HOW tired you are, Hussein, if you were truly an American (in spirit or in truth (take that, you God-haters), you would NOT have gotten that wrong.

That putz will be returned to his miserable private life come 2012.

CBDenver| 11.12.09 @ 11:33AM

Sarah did *NOT* day that the current administration was responsible for removing "In God We Trust" from coins. She noted that it had been done and did not even imply that the Obama administration was responsible. She has responded to this false claim on Facebook. Please try to keep up.

ChuckD| 11.11.09 @ 5:12PM

Careful what you wish for al, I remember how the liberal trolls mocked Reagan for being too dumb and radical. They called him Ronald Ray Guns." If the Republicans run him in 1980," these know it all elitist like yourself said, "it will destroy their party."

So when I hear the mocking, vindictive vile spewing out of numbskull liberals, it gives me hope. Maybe the Palin Revolution is not so far fetched after all. Keep up the good work.

scott ferrell| 11.11.09 @ 9:30PM

you are a liar and an obomabot.how 's that hope and change thing working out that your dear leader promised you.10.2 unemployment and counting.the recession is over only there won't be any jobs coming back.we have some more punishing of capitalism to do.

Doctor Right| 11.12.09 @ 10:52AM

The Left ALWAYS lets us know, in ways both subtle and unsubtle, whom they fear the most...And they are DEATHLY afraid of Sarah Palin.

Thus, their constant, continual attacks on her every word and action.

I distinctly remember the Left's "advice" to Republicans in 1979 to not nominate Ronald Reagan, lest that right-wing B-movie actor destroy the Party.

Yeah...Your concern is sooooooo sincere.

Your idiot, socialist dimwit of a President has been exposed for the intellectualo fraud that he is. He and his Party will be defeated in 2010 and 2012.

President Palin..? Maybe...Maybe not. Regardless, you clowns are finished...And you'll have Obama to thank.

trurl| 11.11.09 @ 8:37AM

"Going Rouge"?? Sarah will never go red! *g*

Shawn Macomber| 11.11.09 @ 10:03AM

Ha! Thanks trurl for pointing out my embarrassing whoopsie! It shall be fixed asap.

Richard Baker| 11.11.09 @ 8:44AM

Palin is an adult and the modern liberal is a spoiled and petulant child. I'm waiting for them to start crying and bawling in public because the adults want them to grow up. Waaaa!

alyeska| 11.13.09 @ 4:44AM

naw, we'll leave the crying and bawling to your hero, glenn beck!

Joe Daniels| 11.11.09 @ 9:04AM

Deborah D. has made an excellent summary. I wish I could contribute additional insights, but she said all that is necessary.

Alyeska, why are you filled with so much hated?

alyeska| 11.12.09 @ 6:41AM

i'm not filled with hatred -- is simply stated some facts about sarah palin. you won't see me using violent language and threatening to "wipe people off the face of the earth," etc. i don't use violent language when i state my opinion so why do you think i hate?

furious| 11.12.09 @ 9:33AM

You're not filled with hatred, alyeska -- you're filled with stupid. It just comes out like hatred because it is so, well, stupid.

RWT| 11.13.09 @ 3:14PM

So, where do you get your facts, Alyeska? HuffPo? DailyCom, Hillary's Media Matters? NYT? DNC? ACORN? SEIU? Salon? NPR? Bill Moyers?

HA HA HA HA HA

Wesley Mouch| 11.11.09 @ 9:16AM

The media loves her or the media hates her, who cares. I want to know why she didn't do any homework before being interviewed. Bush doctrine? no idea. What magazines do you read? all of them she says. Seeing her on tape like that makes it believable that she thinks the earth is 6000 years old & that Africa is a country. It's not common man stuff, it's just dumbness.

Interested Conservative| 11.11.09 @ 9:27AM

OK Wesley, I'll play - what is the "Bush Doctrine", and how many states are there?

Wesley Mouch| 11.11.09 @ 9:35AM

Really?

Interested Conservative| 11.11.09 @ 9:41AM

Really??

louis tully| 11.11.09 @ 9:46AM

Wesley is waiting for help from AxelTroll Inc.

Interested Conservative| 11.11.09 @ 9:55AM

Understood Louis - I just wanted to see which Bush Doctrine he understands, and where the extra seven states come from - split Texas in five, California in three, how about Superior or DC Statehood? That gets to 59, but the POTUS as candidate only noted 57 - maybe wanted to give John and Teresa a state of their own?

Wesley Mouch| 11.11.09 @ 11:35AM

My point is about Palin's "strength" as a caandidate & you guys want to talk about Obama's BS & split hairs on Bush doctrine. Ok Bush doctrine says we have the right to secure ourselves from foreign countries that harbor terrorists is one answer. The answer is not "I will get back to you Charlie".

I find it concerning that so many of you support a candidate who needs so much work as the head of the ticket for 2012. So many better choices that NOBODY it talking about. Best thing that could happen is we Sarah a rest for a LONG time.

Interested Conservative| 11.11.09 @ 11:54AM

She's a fine candidate, and at the rate the POTUS is making decisions and taking action, she'll still have more governing experience than he does when he retires.

There are always "better" choices, as we're all learning, and you may have hit on a new campaign slogan - "Charlie who?". Well done!

(I still favor statehood for yoopee)

alyeska| 11.12.09 @ 6:44AM

she couldn't even stick it out as governor of alaska so what makes you think she'd be a good president. she's a quitter!

Immanuel Goldstein| 11.12.09 @ 10:06AM

Alyeska: You liberals sought to drive her from office by all those frivolous lawsuits that you threw at her. You succeeded. And now she's out hunting your asses down one by one. Happy now?

alyeska| 11.13.09 @ 4:19AM

lol!

victor| 11.13.09 @ 8:06PM

Your boy Barry smoked pot and did coke all through high school and college. He never even had a part time job or worked for a small business.
No executive experience at all and now you gave him th epower to run the auto companies?

Mike Giles| 11.11.09 @ 12:37PM

"The answer is not "I will get back to you Charlie".

Actually the answer is "I don't know, and I don't particularly care". When we are in office Pres. McCain will have his own foreign policy , which may or may not contain policies followed by other administrations.

The question was nothing more than an attempt to tie her and McCain to the unpopular Bush Administration.

Wesley Mouch| 11.11.09 @ 1:05PM

A lot of excuses being made for Mrs. Palin here today. So much baggage. Her only hope is your undying devotion. If this is the candidate the GOP puts its energy into for 2012 we will be handed our heads. Get out of this echo chamber & see what other options are available would be my suggestion to you guys.

wbheff what does my screen name tell you. You judge people by a name? Better to look at their words and actions.

RWT| 11.13.09 @ 3:25PM

Trolls seem to abound whenever Sarah Palin's name is invoked. They talk like Republicans or conservatives for a time, but then are quick to say what "we" need to do, or "who" we should nominate. Always, it ends with "Sarah is not ready, we'll have our heads handed to us, blah, blah, blah."

So put up or shut up. If she is so bad, then offer unto us lowly folk your suggestions for a winning candidate in 2012.

Or, do you not want to go against that towering intellect occupying the Oval Office right now, by just remaining silent on the best candidate to beat the Impostor-in-Chief and his ACORN thugs?

I didn't think you had any suggestions. Nor do I expect any from you.

victor| 11.13.09 @ 8:08PM

Sieg heil, Wesley?
How about a few choruses of the Horst Wessel song, eh?

Raymond| 11.11.09 @ 3:25PM

Charlie Gibson of the liberal MSM CBS only thinks of one bush doctrine. In fact, there are variations of Bush doctrine in which one is about the Kyoto dealings, and that is why, sarah palin is right when she asked in which points, charlie. The Harvard grad BHO clearly mentioned there are 57 states and the MSM did not make an issue of this;rather, they avoided such issue;otherwise, Harvard school will get bankcrupted. I will not send my kids to school if Harvard will teach my children that there are indeed 57 states of the USA and that includes Kenya. LOL!!!

PapaJoe| 11.11.09 @ 1:04PM

Obama knew/slipped up? in stating 57 states. There ARE 57 states in Islam!!!

wbheff| 11.11.09 @ 12:15PM

For anyone familiar with Atlas Shrugged, this clown's screen name tells us all we need to know about him.

alyeska| 11.12.09 @ 6:47AM

oh god! ayn rand? you have to read her as a teenager to get through her bodice rippers. ayn rand sheesh!

Doctor Right| 11.12.09 @ 10:56AM

Ms. Rand was not a very good dramatic writer...The sex/love scenes in "Atlas Shrugged" between Dagny Taggart and Hank Reardon are the stuff of Harlequin romance novels.

Nonetheless, that should not distract from the essential political/philosophical message contained in "Atlas Shrugged"...Unlesss, of course, you're an under-educated, juvenille product of the left-wing education system.

Sound familiar?

alyeska| 11.13.09 @ 4:25AM

her "essential political/philosophical message contained in "atlas shrugged" is sophomoric nonsense. that's why i read them as a teenager, to see what all the hoopla was about --yuck -- what a loser! perhaps if she had maintained some semblance of consistency in her personal life one could take her more seriously -- as it is she just another rightwing blowhard.

grow up!

victor| 11.13.09 @ 8:09PM

Yeah, Mein Kampf and Das Kapital were more to your liking, eh?

Raymond| 11.11.09 @ 2:35PM

How about when Obama mentioned that there are 57 states that comprise United States? Is this what being learned from Harvard Law school??

ChuckD| 11.11.09 @ 5:25PM

Do you really know what the Bush doctrine is? How about Obama? He never got a question harder than "what color is Washington's white horse" and he had the rehearsed answer written on his teleprompter. Give me a break. She made a few mistakes. At least she's not an arrogant pompous know it all like yourself. Can you prove the earth isn't 6000 years old? No you can't.

It's not dumbness it's arrogance and you are full of it.

Here's some mistakes from your side of the aisle:

I actually voted against the war in Iraq before I voted for it. -JFK

I believe I am the only one in the room who has an IQ of 146 -Joe Biden

Let's not get all wee'd wee'd up about it -Barak baby talk Obama

Last but not least,

I've been to all least 57 states. -B. Hussein Obama

Alan Brooks| 11.11.09 @ 9:32AM

She wont be elected POTUS in 2012, and you all know it.
America is a very macho nation.

mucho macho man
I've got to be a macho man...

Raymond| 11.11.09 @ 2:39PM

ah, yes.. I totally agreed with you that USA is a macho nation and that is why Obama cannot look eye to eye at the presidents of Iran and Venezuela. Obama is always apologetic. Americans are so macho that they elected a president that has no balls between his legs. At least Palin is tough enough to take on corrupted GOPs.

hrh40| 11.11.09 @ 2:53PM

Palin is very macho.

Moreso than most of the menchildren in DC ...

Margie| 11.11.09 @ 9:11PM

THAT was good.
She's got more guts and courage than any of them. And bravado!

RWT| 11.13.09 @ 3:33PM

This macho man, and millions of my fellow macho men, are chomping at the bit to vote for her. She couldn't be any worse than the USA-hating Liar wussy in office now. And, we would finally have a patriotic prez again.

BTW, we macho men are wishing that the 2012 election was tomorrow. And that we could vote for Palin early, and vote for Palin often (like they do in Chicago).

Vern Crisler| 11.11.09 @ 9:37AM

They hate Sarah because they see her as a threat. Compromising Republicans get fairer treatment because the liberal media sees them as not worth bothering about.

Alan Brooks| 11.11.09 @ 10:00AM

She has what it takes.
But not until after 2020 can she be elected.

les grossman| 11.11.09 @ 9:44AM

Good c ommentary by Continenti, and by two commenters above, Deborah D and Richard Baker.

joan| 11.11.09 @ 9:54AM

The ONLY reason I cast my vote for the rino, McCain, was because Palin was his running mate....amazingly, no one seems to understand that without Palin, McCain (who was a flawed candidate from the getgo), the margin of victory for Obama would have been larger.

KyMouse| 11.11.09 @ 10:00AM

Mr. Macomber rightly says, "One of the most common attacks against those who failed to see Barack Obama as a shining demigod upon a hill was to psychologize an unflattering 'fear of the other' onto them."

That reminded me of the pro-Obama commercial that Andy Griffith and Ron Howard made before last fall's election. Did anyone else see it? "Opie" asked "Andy Taylor" why some people weren't going to vote for Obama, and Andy replied that some people are just afraid of change (i.e., of the other other).

Up until that moment, I had a lot of admiration for Andy Griffith. Not so much now.

hrh40| 11.11.09 @ 2:55PM

Me too. Sad day. :(

JimJam| 11.13.09 @ 11:47AM

Won't be spending any more $$ on Howard's films either. Hollywood needs to stick to what it knows best- TV, movies and a fruits & nuts decadent lifestyle.

stmichrick| 11.11.09 @ 10:46AM

Sarah Palin is threatening to the Left mainly because she did not abort her Down's Syndrome afflicted son..and is proud of him. This offends the modern feminist to the core. The fact that she was a succcessful female pol in Alaska without being a statist merely makes them uncomfortable.

The misteps of not being prepared for the Couric and Gibson interviews can be easily reversed with a couple of from-the-hip (no handlers) performances against the best they can throw at her. After the Oprah Show appearance, I predict that the more rabid demonization will die down to just simmering hatred.

Margie| 11.11.09 @ 12:36PM

Actually the interview was heavily cut. That question where Katie Hussien Couric asked Sarah what she read was answered by Sarah saying she reads everything, but they cut that out and kept the second part of her answer in, which was something like that she couldn't single out any one thing. The network, in all it's stupendous stupidity, had the FULL uncut version up on its website. They butchered her interview for t.v.
Sarah Palin is one articulate and untelligent woman, whom the Left fears greatly, like they fear Rush. Too much common sense. Too much love of country and and the Constitution. Can't have that, now can we?

Margie| 11.11.09 @ 12:37PM

* s/b intelligent, above.

Angelo| 11.11.09 @ 2:44PM

Katie Couric is so jealous of Sarah Palin because long time this same Couric has been long time sexually fantasizing on sarah's husband

Cas| 11.12.09 @ 3:50AM

Funny thing - Couric's late husband was a Confederate Civil War re-enactor - played the bugle. I wonder how she would respond to a question regarding that?

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…decision to tap her for the ticket last year. Continetti’s Weekly Standard colleague, editor Fred Barnes, had published one of the first national magazine profiles about the former governor in July 2007. Shawn Macomber interviews Continetti at The American Spectator: Victory for Palin’s enemies would come if they succeeded in their attempts to drive her out of public life. sThat hasn’t happened. If…

Margie| 11.11.09 @ 11:55AM

Will Sarah Palin run, if she does, for President, will it be as a Republican?
If she chooses to run as a third Party candidate, would she be able to win, or would it split the ticket and cause the Left to win?
This is something I've been pondering.

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.11.09 @ 11:58AM

Waiting for Sarah's book, I am like a kid waiting for Christmas.
Some of my far eastern friends were literally astounded at her speech in ...hmmm senior moment...Singapore?
You can still find the transcript floating around the web, but to actually have been there and heard her seemed to have been something very special for the attendees.
I am so delighted that she ANNOUNCED that her book was being written with the help of a professional writer.
Again, a smart lady.
She knows when and where to seek counsel and expertise. If she were nominated for President, just think of the truly brilliant AND sensible people she could ...and would... gather around her.
Wooo boy!
I would just love to see judge Bork become her Secretary of the Dept. of Justice.
Mark Santos, as Secretary of Treasury.
Perhaps Jim DeMint as VP....or even head the ticket.
Several of my Oil men friends as her dept. of the interior.
A great Nuke guy as her Secretary of Energy.

...in fact, I truly cannot think of one splendid constitutionalist patriot who would NOT join her if she asked.

...You know, when I think about it, the primary failing on the part of George W. was some of the advisors he chose ...and depended upon. He and his dad shared that blind spot. (Cheny excepted)

To the contrary...Sarah, and her husband the fisherman...know how to sniff out good shipmates for a storm. If she chooses to run...she will be IN a storm from day one. Weak knees won't step up.
I picture the wreck our country will be in by 2012, and we all will be in that storm.
I will support her whatever she chooses.

Margie| 11.11.09 @ 12:50PM

I think it was in Hong Kong. I saw it online. She was fabulous. I used to say Rush was my daily dose of optimism. Sarah is that, and some. You can't help but to be uplifted by her enthusiasm. She is a bright shining star and there is no stopping her.

RectoNoVerso| 11.11.09 @ 12:04PM

Spare me the persecution complex. Even Fox News Fact Checks Palin
http://rectonoverso.wordpress......heck-palin

Padoux| 11.11.09 @ 12:06PM

Odd how Palin is despised, having become governor without marrying to achieve it like Hillary. Go get 'em girl!

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Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : Fear of The Mother [spectator.org] o links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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Homestead Home - Fear of The Mother - Spectator.org « Homestead Home links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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Reasonandjest.com » Sarah Palin; POWs; Cold War links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Talk Radio and the Fairness Doctrine Was Preemptive War in Iraq a Good Idea? Contact Sarah Palin; POWs; Cold War By Scott Lazarowitz, November 11, 2009 12:52 pm – American Spectator interview with the author of The Persecution of Sarah Palin – American Thinker: Remembering Our POWs Who Never Returned – American Conservative: Cold War Without End Uncategorized Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Name…

Augustus John| 11.11.09 @ 1:23PM

The problem with Sarah Palin is that she doesn't know enough to be President, period. Its scary that someone who is SOOOO unprepared would have been offered up as Vice President material. So many Republicans went to the Democrat side when she became the candidate. They won't come back with her in a 2012 bid. The GOP needs to seriously look at this, or start sending Palin to class 24/7 - and not on speaking junkets where she has nothing to impart to the audience.

Etiquette Man| 11.11.09 @ 1:44PM

You have a point. Yes, I think you've nailed it.

After all, at least the Dems' Veep pick and current occupant of the Naval Observatory, Joe Biden, USED to be articulate until his hair plugs started growing into his grey matter.

Now, not so much.

Then, of course, there's the fact that Joe has set the Guinness World Record for hopping on one leg, due to the practice he's had walking around with one foot in his mouth all the time.

Yep, you nailed it. No double standard there . . .

Margie| 11.11.09 @ 2:19PM

List, please.

Canonbeer| 11.11.09 @ 11:47PM

The problem with Barack Obama is that he doesn't know enough to be President, period. Its scary that someone who is SOOOO unprepared would have been offered up as Presidential material. So many Democrats are going to the Republican side since he became the president. He won't make the 2014 bid. The Dems needs to seriously look at this, or start nailing Obama to his chair 24/7 - and not on campaign junkets when he should be governing. On second thought...keep him campaigning.

fundamentalist| 11.11.09 @ 1:43PM

Sarah Palin's failure was in being beautiful. Women are too catty to support a beautiful woman who is also smart. I see it at work every day.

The failures of Palin and Hillary Clinton proved to me that we will never have a female president or vice-president because women in America are jealous of any other woman's success. We will never have women candidate who are better prospects for high office than Hillary and Sarah, and the women of the US stabbed both in the back!

Cas| 11.12.09 @ 4:04AM

Liberal women are too catty - conservative women love her.

She is not only beautiful in looks she is beautiful in spirit.

Liberal women hate her not only for her looks but because she is a feminine feminist, a loving mother, powerful without acting like a man and she has a wonderful husband that she doesn't dominate.

fundamentalist| 11.12.09 @ 1:30PM

Cas, I wish you were right, but I found an astonishing amount of hostility toward her from Republican women. These same women could see through the typical hatchet job that the media does on male Republicans, but adopted the same thing when done on Palin.

And what about the left's betrayal of Hillary? That was pure feline. The left will never have a better candidate than Hillary. Intelligent women will look at the knives that American women thrust into the backs of Hillary and Sarah and conclude that the job is impossible, so why try.

Margie| 11.12.09 @ 2:10PM

Cas said conservative women love her. Not all Republicans are conservative in their behavior, and certainly not Democrat women.
Though I found it interesting that there are, in fact some confused Dem women that like her. These are ones that don't know why they are Dems, probly because their Parents were, so they are. So they're somewhat honest.

Moby Froll| 11.11.09 @ 1:52PM

You conservatives make me sick, you deserve Mrs. Moose Meat Milk Jugs. Just don't inflict your backwoods, hillbilly morality on the rest of the nation!

President Palin would have us all sneezing into the sleeves of our Armani suits like Jed Clampett!

(Or was that Janet "Big Sister" Nazilatano . . .)

You people have no idea what we have in store for you! We will never rest until every single post here at AmSpec is made by a paid Soros plant!

Viva la Revolution!!!

(Hint: Before you start venting, check out the screen name. Toodles!)

Hostile Knowledge| 11.11.09 @ 2:30PM

Try getting a window pane installed in your belly. This way, as your head slides further and further up your a**, you can look out and see what's going on in the rest of the world.

Otherwise, you can just continue spinning around, trying to figure out whether to scratch your watch or wind your butt.

Raymond| 11.11.09 @ 9:15PM

I am an independent but if I will to choose between a liberal and a conservative woman to marry, of course I am smart to choose a conservative woman to marry. I am not that idiot to choose a liberal woman. I am not yet that crazy. Liberal woman is only for use on past times and not a marrying type.

Margie| 11.11.09 @ 1:57PM

Looks like Rip Van Stinkle just woke up and stumbled out of a hole.

Hostile Knowledge| 11.11.09 @ 2:23PM

Some polls suggest voters don't think Palin is qualified to be president. This is the result of successful MSM political smearing. Another year or so of life under Obama will dramatically alter this perception of her.

If Palin were not perceived as a genuine threat to liberals, they wouldn't spend so much time, energy and money on a never-ending crusade to slander her.

When 2012 arrives, Palin will be America's choice for president.

Bill589| 11.11.09 @ 2:29PM

Palin has been attacked like no other. By the time she runs for president, if she chooses to, she will be so toughened her enemies will have no effective weapons. Her opponent will need to have a lot of positives on his side, and as of now, Obama’s positive message of “Hope and Change” is becoming a joke.

Hostile Knowedge| 11.11.09 @ 2:32PM

God decided to create the perfect brainless invertebrate. First he created jellyfish. That was practice. Then he created Obama liberals and perfection was achieved.

Kindle Conservative| 11.11.09 @ 2:47PM

Mr. Matthew Continetti

Please release your book in Kindle form. Hardcover and Paperback are so bulky. I prefer to have the books on my iPhone Kindle App, even if I have to wait to get it like with Going Rogue. Doesn't matter if it is full price, the convenience is worth it. So please release your book in Kindle form. (and in other e-book formats too)

Thank You

Ned| 11.11.09 @ 2:59PM

I'd vote for ten Sarah Palins, before I'd stoop to even speak to King Zero....

nice rack, too

Augustus John| 11.11.09 @ 3:00PM

As I continue to read the commentaries I am struck by the notion that the people behind these words may not have listened to Sarah Palin - may not have read her words, may not have seen her speak.....or may not be truly listening. Her resignation as Governor of Alaska, have you all listened to it? Have you read it? It is the single - most piece of dissembling I have ever seen on a screen - she is not a personality that needs a larger venue - why would you want someone who performs this way to have more power??? Scary.

Hostile Knowledge| 11.11.09 @ 3:09PM

Another year or so of the Jihadist-in-Chief and Americans will eagerly embrace Sarah Palin.

Cunt on it.

Wesley Mouch| 11.11.09 @ 3:52PM

Like I said, echo chamber. Don't get a lot of sensible rebuttle here anymore, just insults mostly. Seems like most of these only want to hear from those who agree with them. If what is being expressed here by most of these guys is at all representative of small c conservatism in America, it's curtains.

Chuck d| 11.11.09 @ 5:35PM

Wesley, get over yourself man. Have you done anything but hurl insults. You wouldn't know a fact or a reasoned argument if it hit you in the face. Most of what's being expressed here are retorts to the insults and vitrolic bashing doled out by people of your ilk.

stmichrick| 11.11.09 @ 7:08PM

Wesley...
...your claim that Palin is dumb is sufficiently ignorant (intentional maybe?) that any attempt to get adversarial respect here is wasted.

Notice that this is not namecalling, just an observation of your flawed approach.

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Ken (Old Texican)| 11.11.09 @ 3:51PM

Hostile,
Are you a poor speller? Or just another cowardly wimp hiding behind your keyboard?
Now that we have several hundred thousand members...I cannot be "disappeared" so easily.
( www.myteamusa.org )

OK, I am all over your search engines...millions of times. I have left my name vacant to allow my words here to be evaluated on their own merit.
Any of our members have my permission to release my name...s. (Christian and family). I shan't.

My "day job" helps thousands of children look forward to a whole new future.
You members call it.
God bless America

DaveS| 11.11.09 @ 4:10PM

The lead quote on journalism's 'intellectual bankruptcy' is, on its face, false. It assumes inaccurately there was accumulated or shared intelligence to be lost.

I like Sarah; she rescued McCain's campaign only to see McCain give any chance of it back by signing up for the bank bailout (McCain should have done exactly the opposite of Bush to show 'independence'). It may have been too much anyway after Soros precipitated the whole credit crunch by arranging on September 19 for the cash withdrawals. But to think Sarah is the Republican Moses is also false. Likeable, not yet a heavyweight, Palin is growing into it. We may see her grow enough. But gushing comparisons to RR we've read on these pages are premature. She can say all the right things and still be a 'who's that?' lightweight. Could Palin tell a 1986 Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall'? Not a chance. Let's not make her a martyr like some poor 'Democrat' women we've lampooned for never doing anything but merely for merely being around.

ChuckD| 11.11.09 @ 5:40PM

DaveS, I don't think anyone posting here believes Palin to be the equal, or even near equal of RR. At least yet. She's pretty young. What's so compelling about the comparison is the hatred the left has for her. That same hatred was spewed on RR for more than a decade. And the more they hated him the more elections he won. RR didn't get serious about politics until he quit hollywood and went on the GE tour. It took him almost 11 yrs to get ready for running for gov of Cal.

Anyway the thing I like most about Palin is she is honest to the core. I can believe what she says. That's also the quality RR had.

Cas| 11.12.09 @ 4:08AM

And she LOVES America!

Not ashamed like "he who shall not be named".

furious| 11.12.09 @ 9:45AM

Not comparable to Reagan's "wall" delcaration, true, but Mrs. Palin surely bruised the President's thin-skinned vanity with her lampooning his "journey of personal discovery" and "fake greek columns". Witness the hateful reaction.

There is nothing more emasculating, especially to a preening narcissist like our current president, than the mockery of a confident woman.

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Sarah Palin: a feminist symbol? « A Rye View links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…women Leave a Comment Is Sarah Palin a feminist? It’s a question that seems to be exercising the minds of a number of commentators: Pic: Jeff Geerling Matthew Continetti believes she is. In an interview with Shawn Macomber in the American Spectator he says: “Palin does not subscribe to the full menu of what the political consultant and author Jeffrey Bell has called “adversarial feminism.”…

somnolence| 11.11.09 @ 5:26PM

I really could care less how someone is interpreted as being "dumb" just because they didn't answer a trivial question verbatim or quote by quote. Leadership capability, intestinal fortitude, and surrounding yourself with the most qualified team takes precedence over any media moment. My interpretation of the whole matter was ask a vague question you're going to get a vague answer. Want her to list 60-100 magazines? Want her to give word for word the Wikepedia definition of the Bush Doctrine? Spare me. As of this writing I'm not prepared to support Mitt or Huck or Newt. Who do I turn to?

Nicole Coulter| 11.11.09 @ 5:28PM

Palin doesn't talk like a politician.

There, are you satisfied that I am out of my "echo chamber" Wesley?

I don't want a silver-tongued speaker. We've got one currently now in the White House. Of course, take away the teleprompters ... and not so much.

Palin may indeed dissemble. I actually read her 2006 innauguration speech when she was governor. She dissembled all over the place, but I understood exactly what she meant: She intended to govern according to the state Constitution. Unbelievable! And that's exactly what she did (note her veto of a ban on state benefits for gay couples).

Speaking patterns can be improved. Thinking patterns and personal morality are a little more set in stone. That's what impresses me about Palin: her character.

I have been saying this a LONG time. If you like politicians who speak like attorneys and never ask interviewers to "clarify" their questions, then you are quite happy with the status quo in Washington, D.C.

We have a $12 Trillion debt and an imperial Congress. We have a politically correct military and an attorney general prosecuting our own CIA agents.

The problem is not a lack of people who speak well ... the problem is a lack of people who govern well.

I'll take Palin's veto pen over Obama's silver tongue any day of the week.

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.11.09 @ 6:06PM

Nicole
God bless!
Your post just went into my permanent file!
http://judgeroy.wordpress.com

stmichrick| 11.11.09 @ 6:55PM

While I agree that Governor Palin stood head and shoulders above the Obama/Biden socialist ticket with regard to executive experience and wisdom, I stand by my earlier comment. What we all should recognize here is that she has been effectively QUAYLED (stigmatized as a buffoon because of certain unscripted public utterances compounded by heavily edited and repeated video), courtesy of Couric/Gibson and the popular culture.

She will regain a measure of public respect because she deserves it, but not succeed electorally. I love her, but it's been done.

Wesley mouch| 11.11.09 @ 9:38PM

I agree with most of this. Mrs. Palin resonates with most of you but few else. To be a successful candidate you must manage your media presence. If you do not it is only your own fault.

My research on her, I find her at best incurious & ill-advised. I agree the dumbness remark was inflammatory & not constructive but that is how I see it. I'm a big Paul guy but he died the same way due to poor media management. I suspect we haven't heard the last of Huckabee.

Tennwriter| 11.12.09 @ 1:42PM

Day by day, we're less afraid of the media. They grow weaker, and we grow stronger in power and courage.

The fortresses of the enemy are shaking.

They tried to Quayle her, but its not going to succeed.

If you really are a Paul guy, then you should be cheering her on (as well as Paul). In a land run by Palin, and run by Social Conservatives, Paul would have gotten a lot more respect even if he didn't get everything his way.

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The Persecution of Sarah Palin Hits Bookstores Tomorrow | America Watches Obama links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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somnolence| 11.11.09 @ 9:24PM

She already has a far greater monetary war chest than Quayle did for his brief run for the White House, plus the GOP is more fractured than it was in 1996. The party has also learned a few things over 13 years. Sound bites from the discredited former Big 3 media networks will no longer cut it; it has grown old and repetitive.

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Instapundit » Blog Archive » A FIRST LOOK AT Sarah Palin’s new book. UPDATE: Fear Of links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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A sneak peek into Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue” « Sister Toldjah links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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joines| 11.11.09 @ 11:55PM

Anyway the thing I like most about Palin is she is honest to the core. I can believe what she says. That's also the quality RR had.
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Osamas Pajamas| 11.12.09 @ 12:22AM

It's FUN driving the Demos completely nuts! Here I am ---- an atheist ---- in love with Palin and Coulter and Malkin, all straightforward Christians. Yay! Long may they wave!

Nick| 11.12.09 @ 12:37AM

Appleby stated perfectly why the left hates Mrs. Palin in the first comment. Especially the part about Trig.

The reason so many feminazis hate Sarah Palin is because she didn't kill Trig when she found out he was going to have Down's. Like many of them probably did. Every time they see Trig, it is a gut-wrenching reminder of what they, or someone they know, did to their unborn baby, and they lash out with hatred.

Who knows how many abortions Katie, Diane, Jane, Leslie, and Bawbwa have had?

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leftbrainfemale| 11.12.09 @ 6:40AM

The political old-boy network has reason to fear the mother - be afraid, fellas, Millions of Moms (MOM for America) are rising up. We're mobilizing to take back our country from the mealy-mouthed namby-pamby emoticons who currently serve as our handlers rather than handling our service!

Richard Baker| 11.12.09 @ 9:06AM

To you liberals: If Palin is so bad and destructive, then step aside and let her keep on until she destroys herself. Why all the fuss? The reason is that you liberals will always tell us who concerns/frightens you. Thanks for the heads-up.

wes| 11.12.09 @ 10:14AM

I think that every time we hear some one attacking
the Christian faith of Sarah Palin, we need to ask them where they get off. Treat them like the haters they are. Expose the bias and intolerance that permeates the supposed "tolerant class".
People speak your mind and defend freedom.
For the record, public servants (elected officials) like Governor Palin, should not stay in an office when they can no longer do the job the people elected them to do. Beset by a myriad of false ethics complaints that could not be ignored, no matter how untrue they were, she did what was best for the people of her state. While it costs a pittance to file these complaints, the burden of proof somehow does not lie with the accuser, but on the accused to defend and also on the people for the legal costs. She made a decision to hand the office to the next in line, a capable and well-like lt. governor so that the business of managing Alaska could go on with out all the drama that the left had created that was costing her alot of money and the state of Alaska lots of money - with no end in site. It was a business decision.
BTW, none of the charges ever stuck, regardless of leftist claims to the contrary.

linda sherman| 11.12.09 @ 10:26AM

correx on 'false' claims by Palin uncovered by Fox. She never blamed Obama for the coin design - she asked How does a decision like this get made? I say that's a good question, and pertains to lots of things. It has not been answered yet either.

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alyeska:
My, you're so juvenile. It appears that you find fighting for Liberty and Freedom by Beck, Rush or anyone an unacceptable response to tyranny. Tell you what. I'll pay for a one-way First-Class airfare to wherever you'd be happy. The only proviso is that you have to STAY. If you hate this country so, well, here's your chance to wing your way to happiness. RSVP.

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